- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Diminishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
- Approach
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process.
- Historical
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
- Contact
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.
- Anon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
- Dialogue
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- Nov 07, 2020
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020